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Re: Control panel empty and closes on its own; Windows update will not run

Jul 27th, 2008

Did you buy your Thinkpad T61 secondhand?

Either way there is no guarantee that the OS is genuine.

The server at MS sees your windows vista version as non genuine and has put your OS into what Microsoft term as 'Reduced functionality mode' This is why the control panel and various other functions are not available.

Nothing you can really do here except to validate your version of windows with a genuine key.

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